The redwood is one of the few conifers that sprout from the stump and roots, and it declares itself willing to begin immediately to repair the damage of the lumberman and also that of the forest-burner. – John Muir
Obama is not Bill Clinton. I don’t think he’s willing to let conservatives have any victories at all. – Bill Flores
It’s rare that I come across actors who are willing to work as hard on the material as I am. – Donnie Wahlberg
Historically, large-scale global trade has served two functions: 1) the exchange of goods between willing sellers and buyers described in Econ 101 textbooks; 2) as a tool of state aggrandizement, in which the private parties are stand-ins for governmental interests. – Charles C. Mann
Once you’ve agreed the script, you must be willing to go as far as it needs to go on set. – Ewan McGregor
What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing… if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph. – Eve Arnold
We’ve suspended the willing suspension of disbelief. We have given up that relationship, that almost hypnotic engagement, with the characters up on the screen. – Edward Zwick
By packaging a full album into a bundle of music with ringtones, videos and other combinations and variations, we found products that consumers demonstrably valued and were willing to purchase at premium prices. And guess what? We’ve sold tons of them. – Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
The less one knows, the more he thinks he knows, and the more willing he is to employ any and all measures to enforce his views upon others. – Paul Harris
The happiest stutterers, I learned, are those who are willing to stutter in front of others. – John Stossel
Personally, speaking as a historian and a storyteller, when it comes to inaccuracy in historical fictioneering, I follow the Shakespeare principle: I’m willing to overlook gobs of mistaken detail if the poetic valence is basically correct. – Rick Perlstein
